Cribbs/Patchway New Neighbourhood Development Framework SPD
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Cribbs/Patchway New Neighbourhood Development Framework SPD Adopted March 2014 www.southglos.gov.uk Cribbs/Patchway New Neighbourhood Development Framework SPD March 2014 Contents Page 1 Introduction and background 3 Overview Purpose of the document 2 Public engagement 8 3 Site context and characteristics 12 4 Vision and objectives 15 Comprehensive development 16 Open space and natural assets 16 Integration and ease of access 16 Strong communities 17 Health and wellbeing 17 5 Access and movement 20 Development principles Infrastructure requirements 6 Community infrastructure 32 Development principles Infrastructure requirements 7 Green and blue infrastructure 42 Development principles Infrastructure requirements 8 Land use 52 Development principles Infrastructure requirements 9 Utilities and renewable energy 62 Development principle Infrastructure requirements 10 Summary 67 11 Appendix 1 68 Policy CS26: Cribbs/ Patchway new neighbourhood 2 www.southglos.gov.uk Cribbs/Patchway New Neighbourhood Development Framework SPD March 2014 1. Introduction and background In January 2013 the Council endorsed the principles of a draft Development Framework for the proposed New Neighbourhood at Cribbs/ Patchway. This was updated following the adoption of the South Gloucestershire Local Plan: Core Strategy in December 2013. Following further public consultation this supplementary planning Cribbs/Patchway document (SPD) was adopted in March 2014. New Neighbourhood Development Framework SPD Draft for consultation November 2012 As an SPD it adds detail to policies set out in the South Gloucestershire Local Plan: Core www.southglos.gov.uk Strategy and should be read in conjunction with the policies within it. New neighbourhood overview The main requirements for the new neighbourhood are set out in Policy CS26 of the Core Strategy (see Appendix 1). By 2027 it will provide approximately 5,700 new homes and around 50ha of employment land, together with a range of community services and facilities. This development provides an exciting opportunity to build a new community that enhances the urban edge of north west Bristol. It will draw together the many strands of placemaking to establish a new community which both supports its own residents and brings wider benefits to the surrounding communities. The development framework sets out how this will be achieved and provides for delivery of: ❙ A strong new landscape and movement framework for the area. ❙ A lively, healthy, well integrated and well supported community with its own sense of identity. ❙ A distinctive and high quality public realm. ❙ A sustainable development. ❙ A significant part of the Council’s strategic housing provision, and ❙ An enhanced employment area focussed on aerospace and defence sectors, advanced manufacturing, emerging materials technologies, information technology, and micro-electronics. www.southglos.gov.uk 3 Cribbs/Patchway New Neighbourhood Development Framework SPD March 2014 Filton Enterprise Area In addition to the Council allocation of this development the Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) have designated an area overlapping and adjacent to the New Neighbourhood as an Enterprise Area. Whilst this has no formal statutory status in planning terms the intention is that it will act as a catalyst and focus for inward investment, and help reinforce the wider aspirations to support and enhance the existing aerospace business cluster nearby. Strategic delivery issues Comprehensive and co-ordinated development This area is in multiple ownerships. Policy CS26 sets out the requirement for development to be comprehensively planned and phased to ensure full integration between the different land uses and the provision of ancillary facilities and supporting infrastructure, both within and beyond the area. Movement Travel patterns across the wider north fringe are complex, driven by the number of significant destinations and large-scale single land uses such as the former Filton airfield, the Airbus complex, and Cribbs Causeway. The key benefits arising from development in this area comprise: ❙ dramatically improving connections for sustainable modes of travel across Filton airfield between key destinations; © South Gloucestershire Council, 2014. All rights reserved. © Crown copyright and database rights 2014 Ordnance Survey 100023410. 4 www.southglos.gov.uk Cribbs/Patchway New Neighbourhood Development Framework SPD March 2014 ❙ ensuring all uses are within close proximity to high quality public transport services, and; ❙ maximising funding contributions across the whole area. Green infrastructure The provision of open space across the north fringe of the Bristol urban area needs specific consideration. The Council’s Open Space Audit (2010) identified shortfalls across the north fringe in provision for public outdoor sports facilities, children and young people, and allotments. The audit further recognised that access to open space is a significant issue, and in that particular residents have few access points to the wider countryside. This raises the importance of these access points and sets the context and challenge of planning new developments in this area, in respect of public open space. Social infrastructure The Cribbs/ Patchway area is adjacent to two council-designated priority neighbourhoods (Filton and Patchway) and established pockets of housing at Catbrain Lane and Passage Road. There is a general lack of adequate and sufficient community facilities in the area, which is exacerbated by the poor accessibility and connectivity in the wider area. Recent experience of large-scale developments has highlighted the challenges surrounding early provision of adequate community infrastructure, which proposals will need to appropriately address. Purpose of the document The allocation of the Cribbs Patchway New Neighbourhood is set out in the Core Strategy (Policy CS26) and is intended to ensure the delivery of approximately 5,700 dwellings. This document is intended to amplify that policy, and seeks to aid infrastructure delivery, setting out in detail the need, timing, and where appropriate, location of infrastructure requirements that will make the Cribbs/ Patchway area a vibrant and attractive place to live, work and visit. It also seeks to help developers and landowners submit successful planning applications by establishing a flexible vision and broad principles for development, and can be used as a guide for developers and members of the public to understand the requirements, timing and broad location of infrastructure requirements. It will also be used to inform development management decisions. Development proposals will be required to clarify where they differ from the SPD. www.southglos.gov.uk 5 Cribbs/Patchway New Neighbourhood Development Framework SPD March 2014 Where delivery of infrastructure set out within the SPD is dependent on collaboration from other individuals or organisations applicants will be required to provide formal evidence that this can and will be achieved. To this end, South Gloucestershire Council are facilitating a collaboration agreement (or equivalent) as the most effective mechanism for securing coordinated delivery of sustainable development and infrastructure across the area. This agreement should:- ❙ Agree a phased and collaborative approach to development and infrastructure delivery, bringing forward individual sites in a sustainable way; ❙ Address issues where delivery of development or infrastructure is reliant on more than one landowner, and where failure in provision could prejudice or fail to positively facilitate, surrounding development or delivery of infrastructure, and identify solutions to positively facilitate surrounding development; ❙ Seek optimum and efficient delivery of development and infrastructure to the benefit of the wider area; and ❙ Seek opportunities to equalise costs and benefits between landowners to the benefit of the nature and timing of delivery development as a whole. Applications that do not demonstrate a commitment to comprehensive development as set out above will be refused planning permission. Supplementary Planning Document - process and programme This SPD has been prepared to amplify and provide further guidance in support of the policies of the South Gloucesteshire Local Plan: Core Strategy (adopted December 2013) and should be read in conjunction with that document. The SPD has been prepared in line with National Legislation and Policy and with the Council’s Statement of Community Involvement adopted May 2008 (SCI ) (see : http://www.southglos.gov.uk/Documents/PTE080288.pdf) The SPD has been prepared following several stages of public consultation (see section 2 below) before being considered for final adoption in March 2014. This SPD is also supported by: ❙ a Sustainability Appraisal, ❙ a Statement of Consultation, and ❙ an Equalities Assessment 6 www.southglos.gov.uk Cribbs/Patchway New Neighbourhood Development Framework SPD March 2014 www.southglos.gov.uk 7 Cribbs/Patchway New Neighbourhood Development Framework SPD March 2014 2. Public engagement Many people and organisations have an interest in the development of the Cribbs/ Patchway new neighbourhood. National policy requires that this should be more than simple scrutiny of proposals but a creative exercise in finding ways to enhance and improve the places in which people live their lives (NPPF para 17). The Council has therefore sought to engage with stakeholders throughout the planning of the new neighbourhood and to undertake specific